Inne baśnie. Andersen – Iwaszkiewicz – Uniłowski
Other tales. Andersen – Iwaszkiewicz – Uniłowski

Author(s): Joanna Kisiel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Andersen; Iwaszkiewicz; Uniłowski; masculinity; misogyny; otherness
Summary/Abstract: This book is an invitation to the parallel reading of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s The Wilko Girls, and Zbigniew Uniłowski’s Wspólny Pokój [The Common Room]. All of the literary inquiries included in it contribute to a coherent narrative of the male otherness in the women’s world. Such a masculinity is based on passivity and withdrawal, uncertainty and anxiety; due to the affects of desire, reluctance, or abjection, it marks the experience of the otherness of the women’s world in terms of both fascination and rejection. Moreover, in the works analysed the female protagonists are presented as complete – if not excessive – whereas the male ones encounter the multiplying lack; in other words, these women immerse in existence, while the men barely reach its surface.

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